AI will create a permanent underclass

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  Kenneth Rogoff

  Economist; Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University and former Chief Economist of the IMF

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  Failure, in their eyes, means being left behind while AI automates large swaths of white-collar work – especially coding jobs, which until now have been a veritable licence to print money – and falling into the ranks of the permanent poor.

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  Dario Amodei

  CEO at Anthropic

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  The people who are least able to make good decisions opt out of the very technologies that improve their decision-making abilities, leading to an ever-increasing gap and even creating a dystopian underclass.

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  Yuval Noah Harari

  Israeli historian and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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  In the 21st century we might witness the creation of a massive new unworking class: people devoid of any economic, political or even artistic value, who contribute nothing to the prosperity, power and glory of society.

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  David George

  General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he leads the a16z Growth investing team

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  The claim that AI will produce economy-wide, permanent unemployment is unhelpful marketing, bad economics and worse history. To the contrary, productivity gains should increase demand for labor, because labor becomes more valuable.

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  Scott Alexander

  Author and psychiatrist

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  I think there's only a 20% chance of an AI-related underclass that lasts more than a generation, let alone a permanent underclass.

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